Olivier Ayache-Vidal

Biography

Olivier Ayache-Vidal (born 27 December 1969) is a French film director and screenwriter.

After studying social sciences and communications, he worked as a creative in an advertisement agency.

He became a photographic reporter in 1992, doing missions for the UNESCO and travelling the world for the Gamma agency. In five years, he did thirty pieces in fifteen countries.

His career in journalism shaped a working method that he would later apply in his fictional works. His stories are preceded by extensive research, which allows him to write stories that are as close to reality as possible. This vision of cinema, a "lived-in filmmaking" of sorts, aims to create fictional stories that are as do...